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Posted April 03, 2023
I've noticed that searching for games seems a bit and miss for me. The other day I saw an ad, on gog.com, for the Silver Box Classics. Yet when I search for "Dungeons & Dragons", "Dragonlance", or "Shadow Sorcerer", search results don't return Silver Box Classics; despite the bundle being a collection of Dungeons & Dragons game, all Dragonlance, and Shadow Sorcerer one of the included games.

Is GOG search that bad, am I expecting too much from it, or is it something else? I'm sure there are some old D&D games I'm missing, but as I have no way to search for them with "Dungeons & Dragons" or the game's title, except in a few cases of single games, I can't find them.
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Posted April 03, 2023
The search is that bad but they sometimes improve on it by adding tags but for that they need to learn that a certain title is hard to find.

I checked a couple that I know were problematic before and one was vastly improved upon but Eye of the Beholder still cannot be found by its name.
Post edited April 03, 2023 by Themken
Posted April 03, 2023
As indicated on the search bar itself, you can search by title, publisher (or developer), or tags.
If they do implement searching the description, I hope they make it opt-in, since it's likely to pollute the search results with irrelevant items.
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Posted April 03, 2023
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Ice_Mage: As indicated on the search bar itself, you can search by title, publisher (or developer), or tags.
If they do implement searching the description, I hope they make it opt-in, since it's likely to pollute the search results with irrelevant items.
Yes - I've tried by publisher, that often doesn't return results I'd expect. I have used the publisher field on a game to search for that game by publisher and it's not returned. And title only works when the game is available as a single game - not for collections.
Posted April 03, 2023
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fevered monk: I have used the publisher field on a game to search for that game by publisher and it's not returned.
Any examples?
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fevered monk: And title only works when the game is available as a single game - not for collections.
Silver Box Classics is the title. It shows up just fine if you search for it. The search bar doesn't look in the store page description.
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Posted April 03, 2023
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fevered monk: I have used the publisher field on a game to search for that game by publisher and it's not returned.
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Ice_Mage: Any examples?
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fevered monk: And title only works when the game is available as a single game - not for collections.
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Ice_Mage: Silver Box Classics is the title. It shows up just fine if you search for it. The search bar doesn't look in the store page description.
Yes - that's the name, and if searched for it shows up. But one would have to know the name of that - my initial question was about searching for a game by name, not the collection. I expected searching by a game's title would return that game, regardless of the collection it's in. That's what I found odd.
Posted April 03, 2023
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fevered monk: But one would have to know the name of that - my initial question was about searching for a game by name, not the collection.
The description isn't searched. I highlighted it in blue and the searchable metadata in red (title, tags, developer and publisher). I cannot make this any clearer.
Open a support ticket to send your feedback. You'll have to tell the chatbot the issue is of type "other" twice. Until they change the search to your liking, you may get better results by entering "some words to search for go here" site:gog.com into an Internet search engine.
Posted April 03, 2023
There's a difference between collectrions and products that contain more than one game.

As long as the games contained in this Silver Box Classics don't have separated product entries, the search engine won't look for them.

You also won't find Aladdin, The Lion King or Jungle Book when you look for them, since they are now contained in a product called Disney Games Classic Collection.
The single games were on GOG, but are not anymore.

Having a full text search would be nice indeed, also an option to exclude certain terms.
Posted April 03, 2023
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fevered monk: I've noticed that searching for games seems a bit and miss for me. The other day I saw an ad, on gog.com, for the Silver Box Classics. Yet when I search for "Dungeons & Dragons", "Dragonlance", or "Shadow Sorcerer", search results don't return Silver Box Classics; despite the bundle being a collection of Dungeons & Dragons game, all Dragonlance, and Shadow Sorcerer one of the included games.

Is GOG search that bad, am I expecting too much from it, or is it something else? I'm sure there are some old D&D games I'm missing, but as I have no way to search for them with "Dungeons & Dragons" or the game's title, except in a few cases of single games, I can't find them.
With the "Silver Box Classics" you're still lucky, because you can search for them from every point in the store/forum and find them (even if only as bundle), using the keyword "Silver".

Try the same with the "Gold Box Games" and see where that gets you... (hint: it's "Forgotten Realms", you have to look for in those cases).
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